But the fact that the airline employed staff who are this creative and clever in the first place is probably a strange pat on the back. Play the game at your own peril--there are a lot of nasty rescue slides to fall down.

It's all quite a giggle for a "Friday funny", but what company benefits can be gained from it? In the news article, the reporter says that Koerting took ideas from colleagues to create some of the action points, so chances are, he's not the only disgruntled employee - the difference is, he spoke up about it.

If I were one of the managers or communications staff at the company, depending on the circumstances, I might use this example as a chance to have transparent discussions with employees about the issues brought up in the game. Or make sure that there were mechanisms in place for staff to air their concerns/irritations in a fair, open environment without fear of reprisal.

The question now is what is Virgin Blue going to do about it? Will they use it as an opportunity to have a frank discussion with staff and find a way to make sure that convo is constant? From the outside looking in, Virgin Blue in Aussie and Pacific Blue in New Zealand have always seemed to exude a fun, funky culture – perhaps that was so at the beginning but it has dwindled now?

4) The numbers of visitors to my blog exploded that day See the following graph from Google AnalyticsWhich is incredible if you think that no link was placed to my blog from the articles mentioned. Everybody visiting the blog had to google me (go to google page, type my name, search, go through results and click on blog). Several hurdles that usually are higher than you think and users really have to interested in finding out.

5) My Profile on Xing got accessed by many unknown users.Its a business network similar to LinkedIn and you can track there how has looked at your profile over time.So you can see what happens after a single mail to some former colleagues, papers are writing about you, forums discuss your topic, blogs are posting about you, your own blog is been flooded with visitors and your social network profiles are accessed by unknown visitors.

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